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deep plates with or without three legs, bowls of all sizes, and pitch- 

 ers. There is often an incised or stamped design in the bottom of 

 the plates. It is not necessary to describe the designs, as this type 

 is well known. 



Tyfe XV I ^ Fine line Aztec, Tezcoco type. — This is the type with 

 designs similar in general to that of the former, but the lines are much 

 finer and the designs are more carefully drawn (Boas Album, pi. 67). 

 It may be called the "Tezcoco type." The slip is yellow and the 

 design is in black. It is a well-recognized type and need not be de- 

 scribed. Few examples of either of these two latter types were 



found at this site. 



Type XVII, Orange Aztec. — 

 Tliis type is characterized by 

 a dull finish. The slip is a yel- 

 lowish orange and the design 

 is very often floral in char- 

 acter. 



Pottery shapes. — Very few 

 complete pieces were found. 

 Wherever possible attempts 

 have been made in the pre- 

 ceding description to indicate 

 the shapes of the various 

 types. Plate 15, g, shows a 

 well-recognized Aztec type of 

 olla. It was found in the 

 upper levels of the excava- 

 tion. 



Pottery feet. — There is a 

 large variety in the supports of the different types of pottery. The 

 round straight-sided bowls usually had three small solid feet. Manj^ 

 other supports were hollow, with or without perforations. The 

 most common form of decorated support is seen in figure 9. This 

 is clearly Toltec in type and was found on a bowl with the molded 

 decoration. The feet of this class were themselves molded. 



As this mound is the first of the kind to be excavated completely 

 in the vicinity of Mexico City, care has been taken to indicate the 

 order, the methods, and the reasons for the various steps taken. This 

 paper is, therefore, a study of method quite as much as a study of 

 results. It is to be hoped that other mounds similar to the one here 

 discussed will be excavated. It is only after several of these have 

 been studied that many of the perplexing questions arising in the 

 present case can be answered. The spectacular side is lacking in an 



Fici. y. — I'otteiy foot. 



